Excerpt from
Lesson Four
The Importance of Right Attitude
Right attitude is
not merely produced by success: it actually
attracts success. Within ourselves we have
the power to emerge smiling from the greatest defeat,
and to go on to achieve shining victory.
Why be like those
social misfits who, even when things go well for
them, manage to find something to grumble about?
Disgruntlement becomes a habit. A positive attitude
depends far less on things going right outwardly
than on an inner determination to be happy always.
More often, such an attitude is the cause
of good fortune, not merely a result of it. A strong,
positive attitude, finally, is most effective when
it is self-generated.
People whose outlook
on life is, by contrast, basically negative can
actually attract failure! The stronger
a person’s attitude, whether positive or negative,
the stronger the magnetic field of energy
it generates, drawing good or bad fortune to oneself.
True success is his
already, indeed, who clings determinedly to right
attitudes, for in the long run success means victory
over one’s self. Merely to stumble onto success,
like someone finding buried treasure in the garden
of his ancestral home, is delusion’s way of
softening one up for another plunge into failure!
Above all, true success means self-mastery. What
can anyone accomplish more than that? Complete mastery
awaits you within yourself. Money, fame, worldly
power, and other outward achievements are evanescent:
they bring no lasting satisfaction. Whatever you
do, think above all in terms of what success will
make of you, both as a human being and as an instrument
of Higher Truth.
Excerpts
available:
Introduction
Lesson
One: Dharma as the Key to Success
Lesson Two: How
to Magnetize Money
Lesson Three: Knowledge,
Inspiration, and Energy
Lesson Four: The
Importance of Right Attitude
Lesson Five: What
Is It, to Be Practical?
